Family's Misfortune. Mother and Son Burned. Home Destroyed by Fire. Sydney
Mrs. Violet Verrill (45) was trapped in her blazing home at Chullora last night while recovering her handbag. She escaped through a window with…
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Fires & bushfires, 1937
400 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 20
£20,000 DAMAGE Big Blaze in Melbourne MELBOURNE
A fire which swept through an old building in Little Dourke-street shortly before midnight on Saturday, gutted two printing works and a motor greasing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Fighters Spend Busy Night In City Spectacular Laundry Blaze Suffocating Smoke Sydney
Two firemen suffered burns, and a third was cut by broken glass in fires early to-day. Four persons were buried under hot corrugated iron when a roof collapsed, but they were…
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When a fire broke out at Mosman early this morning a launch was partly destroyed. The flames spread to an unoccupied cottage,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thirty-three Years' Service. Fire Brigade Captain's Record Tributes by Fire Board Commissioners
Mr. Walter Jaeger, captain of the Muswellbrook Fire Brigade, was the recipient of a bar to his long service medal on the occasion…
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The Board of Fire Commissioners of N.S.W. were given an opportunity of inspecting the new Council Chambers on Friday last. The Hon…
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The clanging of the fire-bell just as patrons were leaving the Strand Theatre on Wednesday night, and the arrival of the Fire Brigade outside the…
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Whon we wish to celebrate something, we often light a bonfire or let off fireworks. And whon it comes to honouring some great personage, such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Swam Ashore Fire on Hospital Ship NAPLES, August 13
The crew of the Italian hospital ship Helouan, which was gutted by fire in Naples harbour, jumped overboard, naked, and swam ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cub Outing Camp Fire Meals at Fern Gully (Contributed.)
Some nineteen of the 23 members of the 1st Singleton Cub Pack turned up at the Club Boom at 1.30 on Saturday last for an outing in the bush. Of the…
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Residents were awakened about 2 a.m. on Wednesday by the dreaded ominous blast of the Freezing Works fire alarm whistle. It was quickly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cheated Fire Sir William Jowitt LONDON, August 20
Awakened by a fire at his Sussex home, Sir William Jowitt, K.C., lowered his wife in a blanket from the window to the ground 20 feet below, and then escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. Theatre Fire Wellington (N.z.)
Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a fire which destroyed the Majestic Theatre, Ashburion. The water supply was inadequate, and the theatre, which was owned by the Fuller-Hayward…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twelve Dead Trapped by Fire Forest Ablaze New York Aug 23
Twelve Civilian Conservative Corps workers lost their lives, and 22 were severely burnet when they were trapped on a rock lodge while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Fires Devastate Shanghai No Hope of Saving Vast Area. Incendiarists and Bombs £30,000,000 Damage to British Property
The fires which have been burning in Northern and Eastern Shanghai since Wednesday are hourly increasing in intensity and now are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trapped by Forest Fire Ordeal on Ledge
Twelve relief workers are dead and 48 received burns as a result of having been trapped on a ledge of rock while fighting a fire in the Shosheni National…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Incendiarist at Ballarat Third Blaze in a Week
Ballarat's fire bag caused a third blaze in a week yesterday when the Town and City Mission Church, at Ballarat, was destroyed. The damage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Insurance Wool Store Fire. Compensating Growers
A case of considerable interest to woolgrowers was heard in the High Court, Sydney, on Tuesday, when Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bathurst Blaze Caused by Electric Iron BATHURST
A warning to unauthorised persons installing or altering electrical appliances was made by the coroner (Mr, Bromhead) at an inquiry into the fire which damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Open Fire Trouble in Mauritius LONDON, Aug. 20
Disorder broke out on Friday in one locality in the South of Mauritius, and the police had to fire on the crowd, killing one man, according to information which…
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